Being a regular churchgoer, when I heard about this my initial thought was "oh, no, how embarrassing".
And then I remembered just why a lot of Christians, myself included, can get very sensitive about stuff like this.
It's obvious that cultural references to Christianity in society are being steadily removed, and this is with the approval of a large number of the population. This is - and there is no denying it - because of the massive rejection of Christianity that has taken place across the West in the last 50 to 100 years. Christianity in the UK and other countries like it is dead in the water - leastways the traditional Christianity indigenous to those countries (I'll return to this point in a minute). That's not something any Christian can complain about. It's just life.
What really pisses me off are two things.
First, Christianity is treated as invisible, except for stuff like this. I live in NZ, probably the most irreligious country on earth. Nevertheless, an absolute majority of charitable activity, that is to say relief of poverty, hardship, homelessness, and social support of all types is provided by societies and organisations with a Christian basis - Anglican, Catholic, multi-denominatinal and many others. I have no doubt it's the same in the UK, where I expect Islam and other religions are increasingly joining in. Does that ever get reported in the media? Does it fuck. The media - which generally only reports the things people are interested in - is not interested in alleviating the distress of smelly and unlikeable people. When it comes to religion, they are only intested in gay bishops and rows about easter eggs, and in the case if Islam, terrorism. They are also interested in paedophilia, which is something that certainly does need reporting, but as is increasingly obvious, it was a crime endemic to society as a whole, not just religious organisations.
The other is when a social institution decides to utterly erase its Christian origins in the name of inclusivity. There are many organisations that have done this. It's a form of dishonesty and it leads to a lot of comment, not least on these boards along the lines of "what did Christianity do to us". Totally Pythonesque, except that most are too clueless about their own history and culture to know any responses. Associated with this is the idea that Easter is "actually pagan", ie, it's indigenous to this country in a way that Christianity is not (this normaly goes along with huge projectionism re what paganism was actually about). The truth is that next to nothing is known about pagan religion in the UK in its pure form; most of what is known comes a tiny number of records, and the remainder comes from practices that were adopted into Christianity over the course of nearly two millenia - which gives Christianity a much better claim to be the indigenous religion than something that died out largely prior to any written records.
Yet outside academic circles, the attitude is that Christianity was just some wierd thing that dead people did for a while on Sundays. Oh, and homophobia and the patriarchy.
Did I say Christianity was dead in the water? Well, in the UK, I think the traditional denominations are, that is to say Anglicanism, Catholicism, Methodism, and Presbyterianism and so on. But given the West's high immigration, the versions of Christianity being brought with them, and given their much higher birthrate I have no belief Christianity will end in the UK any time soon. It will just be a variety that most people here will dislike even more. But that's what you get if you sabotage your own version of it, which is precisely what has happened and is happening.